Welcome to the world of smart eLearning. Intelligent by design. Efficient by nature. Revel in the unique authoring experience enabled by innovative Fluid Boxes — create fully responsive eLearning content faster, without programming. Also automatically transform* legacy desktop courses into mobile learning. With Adobe Typekit integration, you can author with high-quality fonts for a visually stunning composition that displays consistently across devices and browsers. Pay-as-you-go with flexible subscription programs for individuals and teams.

Productive. To the end
Leap ahead with an authoring platform that does the heavy lifting of creating virtually any kind of responsive eLearning content. From application simulations to HD product demos, assessment modules and more, do it all with just one tool. Get unmatched value with 75,000+ free eLearning assets. Use Adobe Captivate Draft, and move seamlessly from storyboarding to storytelling. Easily deploy and manage courses with single-click publishing to Adobe Captivate Prime LMS.

Smart-up. Rapid eLearning
Do it all with just one tool — from mobile learning to application simulations, from HD product demos to assessment modules. Design storyboards with Adobe Captivate Draft, and turn them into responsive courses in a jiffy. Beautify content with a growing library of 75,000+ free assets.

Out-smart. Invest in the best
Maximize team productivity, reduce total cost of ownership, and stay ahead of the skilling curve with the award-winning authoring tool from Adobe. Plug in to our buzzing community and get help on-demand. Standardize on Adobe Captivate, as more than 80% of Fortune 500 companies have done..

Fluid Boxes [New]
Explore the building blocks of Smart eLearning design with intelligent containers that use white space optimally. These containers kick-in when you choose a responsive theme. Optionally you can draw your own Fluid Boxes. Objects placed in Fluid Boxes get aligned automatically so that learners always get fully responsive experience regardless of their device or browser. Crunch authoring time and speed up time-to-market with a host of powerful properties, such as optional display of objects and locking of aspect ratio.

Multiscreen responsive eLearning authoring [Enhanced]
Author as you always have—content automatically rearranges itself for the learner’s device. Use the in-product device-specific preview to see how your project will appear. Publish as a single project and automatically deliver a fully responsive experience to your learners.

Auto-migrate from non-mobile to mobile [New]
Join the mobile age. Transform legacy desktop-only courses into fully responsive modules using patent-pending technology from Adobe. Bring in existing Adobe Captivate projects and save them as responsive projects. When you relaunch them, Fluid Boxes will automatically appear around the most logical grouping of objects, which you can accept or customize.

Adobe Typekit integration [New]
Good typography makes for a great viewing experience only when it is consistent across devices, and delivering that just got a lot easier. Create a cloud-based kit of selected Typekit font families for use in your courses. Now learners will experience the content exactly as you intended.

Best-in-class screen capture
Generate robust software simulations with multiple learning modes in a single recording session by capturing all on-screen actions, including mouse movements, system audio and keyboard activity. Create a single responsive screen capture project that plays seamlessly across devices. Adobe Captivate detects screen activity in the recording window and automatically pans to those areas to create screen capture output for the tablet and mobile views.

Adobe Captivate Draft
Kickstart authoring the smart way with this free storyboarding app**. Convert your ideas into interactive storyboards complete with eLearning elements such as content and question slides, branching logic, and more. Share storyboards for real-time, collaborative reviewing on the cloud; reviewers do not need to have either the app or Adobe Captivate. Simply import your storyboards into Adobe Captivate and publish them, to seamlessly generate responsive projects.

Asset store
Work smarter—unlock value with in-product access to Adobe Stock and our library of 75,000+ free eLearning assets. Choose from a universe of royalty-free images, people cutouts, interactions, themes, games, scenarios, and much more. Find the perfect asset for your eLearning projects and delight your learners with content that dazzles.

Responsive sliders [New]
Break free of fixed sizes. Forget breakpoints. Now take advantage of a new vertical slider and revamped horizontal slider to preview content across a broad device landscape, from 320px to 1280px width and 100px to 5000px height.

Responsive text support [New]
Provide a superior experience to learners, even for text-heavy courses delivered on small screens. Long paragraphs are automatically collapsed to just a couple of lines, and learners can click to view more.

Responsive Motion Effects without programming [Enhanced]
Create fluid object transitions that include motion paths and rotations, even in responsive projects. Now add effects to both individual objects and groups of objects. Define Linear, Custom or Scribble motion paths to completely control the way objects move. Preview animations on hover, and see how effects play out on the integrated Effects and Project timeline. Deliver a superior responsive learning experience by designing different effects for different devices.

Customizable closed captions [New]
Create courses that meet accessibility standards with closed captions generated from slide notes and for slide videos. These can be enhanced by controlling the way they look and where they appear.

Device-specific previews [New]
Eliminate the guesswork. Now preview exactly how your content will look on specific devices by selecting from a preset device menu. You can also add new devices to the menu, as required.

Shared Advanced Actions [Enhanced]
Use advanced actions to enable conditional or multiple actions in an interaction or across projects. Create shared action templates to use across modules and projects. Enhance shared actions with variable parameterization. Now you can have one or more Decision or Conditional table. You can also create a looping algorithm from within an advanced action.

Publish to Adobe Captivate Prime and other LMSs
Set up a smart learning ecosystem and deliver a superior experience to your learners thanks to tight integration between Adobe Captivate and Adobe Captivate Prime LMS. Publish your courses with a single click to Adobe Captivate Prime, or to other leading LMSs.

Multistate objects
Power up your eLearning with less elbow grease using object states on steroids. Improve retention by enabling learners to interact with objects in ways never seen before. Make complex workflows achievable with just a few clicks by triggering an unlimited number of custom or in-built states, for each object, including smart shapes, images, text, buttons and more. Easily edit states using the States timeline.

Roundtripping with Adobe CC
Roundtrip seamlessly with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Audition and more in Adobe Creative Cloud and work with the world’s best creative apps. Preserve layers in imported Photoshop files, and edit or animate individual layers in Adobe Captivate for just the right effect. Edit and enhance audio files in Adobe Audition CC software and then bring them back into Adobe Captivate.

Intuitive user interface
Call on the power-packed functionalities of Adobe Captivate from within a intuitive UI that makes authoring easy and efficient. Enjoy authoring with an interface that is simple enough for subject matter experts and powerful enough for experienced users.

Text to speech
Keep learners tuned in to your content thanks to automatic voice-over functionality that turns text into high-quality speech in a few clicks. Need to change the text? Just click once to update the audio.

Best-in-class HTML5 publishing
Import your PowerPoint project into Adobe Captivate and retain text, shapes, audio, and animations, when you publish them directly to HTML5. Make your eLearning content more mobile with full support for scalable HTML5, mobile themes, play bar, and the ability to pause and resume anywhere, anytime, and on virtually any device. Also publish HTML5 courses directly to Adobe Captivate Prime LMS or Adobe Connect.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) support [New]
Create high-quality projects with vector images that scale across devices and sizes with no loss of quality. Define complex shapes and bring them into Adobe Captivate, as SVG graphics. Convert them to auto shapes and use them as buttons or feedback captions. Roundtrip with Adobe Illustrator CC to edit the images. The images are automatically added to the library, and can be re-used across projects.

iOS device capture
Record your device screen as a full resolution HD video. Make your video richer by adding mobile-specific gestures such as swipe, tap, and pinch to zoom. Select from a range of audio sources, such as system audio, device audio, and microphone input, to customize your video demo.

Geo-location support
Utilize the GPS capabilities of mobile devices to deliver timely, location-aware content to learners. Create assessments that require learners to be at a particular geo-location. Set location parameters easily using the integration of Google Maps with Adobe Captivate.

Native app publisher
Publish your course as an app to multiple mobile platforms, such as iOS, Android, and Windows RT (Metro apps), simultaneously and with a single click, right from within Adobe Captivate using the Adobe PhoneGap* service.

Audio-video support and synchronization
Record system audio along with narration or import video in a wide variety of formats (AVI, MOV, FLV, MPEG). Synchronize audio or video with slides and timed objects. Edit audio to correct mistakes, add an external track, or attach sound effects to individual objects. Make your eLearning more personal by providing audio responses to interactions and enabling in-course YouTube video streaming.

Responsive drag-and-drop interactions
Make eLearning fun with drag-and-drop games, quizzes, and learning modules that can run on any device. Choose from a variety of relationships between the drag item and drop target to implement learning outcomes more visually. Provide customizable audio feedback to every drag-and-drop attempt.

In-product LMS preview
Eliminate the guesswork from content-LMS integration, get fine-grained control over all aspects of your course, and reduce dependency on your LMS administrator. Automatically preview courses in Scorm.com, to gauge LMS compatibility and get error logs to identify those portions of the course that need attention.

Master slides
Use master slides to easily create and maintain well-formatted and consistent-looking content that meets your corporate guidelines. Define styles and apply them to selected objects for quick and consistent formatting across a project.